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SOVRCESOF 
MEMORIAL 
ORNAMENTATION 

BY 

Henry Powell Hopkins, A.M., B. Arch., A.I. A. 


Tublished by 

Vermont Marble Company 

Proctor, Vermont 


Copyright, 1914 
Vermont Marble Company 


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Printed bvThe Barta Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 

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FOREWORD 


HIS brief outline of ornamentation as related to memorial 
design has been written under the encouragement of 
Capt. E. R. Morse of the Vermont Marble Company and 
in the belief that there is need for a simple and practical 
presentation of the subject It is mainly for the memorial 
craftsman and his salesmen that this work is produced 
and it is the writer’s desire to make some contribution, if possible, to a bet¬ 
ter knowledge of memorial ornamentation in the retail selling field. Cor¬ 
rect ornament invariably has an historic derivation which can be traced 
and which gains meaning if its origin and the structural or artistic reasons 
for its use are understood. 

In recent years there has been a general improvement in public 
appreciation of art. This comes in part from the increase in wealth, with 
resulting leisure and opportunity for travel, and in part from our increased 
commercial activity and exchanges with other nations. The American of 
today makes his purchases with a keener appreciation of true beauty and 
good design than he did in years past. In every line of industry dealers and 
their salesmen are feeling the need of a more thorough knowledge of cor¬ 
rect design as part of their selling equipment. 

It is the purpose of this book to illustrate and briefly explain a few of 
the styles of ornament which may be practically applied in the field of 
memorial design. Several historic styles which are adapted to this purpose 
have been omitted, as well as the general subject of design involving scale, 
proportion, contour and other problems. It is hoped that the illustrations of 
various styles of ornament accompanied by the text will serve to familiar¬ 
ize the. reader with these great historic periods of design and assist him in 
the recognition and appreciation of correct ornamentation. 

The examples of ornament assembled in the plates have been derived 
from various sources. Notes taken during the lectures of Dr. A. D. F. Ham¬ 
lin, while the writer was a student at Columbia University, have been of 

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FOREWORD 

great value, as well as "The History of Ancient and Medieval Ornament” 
and "The History of Renaissance and Modern Ornament” by Dr. Hamlin, 
"The Grammar of Ornament” by Owen Jones, "Myers Handbook of Orna¬ 
ment,” "Speltz’s Ornament,” the splendid restorations made under the 
direction of H D’Espouy, "Edifices of Modern Rome” by Paul Letarouilly 
and various volumes on Gothic and Colonial architecture. 


Henry Powell Hopkins. 


347 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 
June 2., 1914 


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HISTORIC STYLE 


RIEFLY defined, historic style is a characteristic kind of 
design which developed in a certain country to a high 
point of perfection and possessed sufficient merit to out¬ 
live the conditions which produced it. It is the represen¬ 
tation in all fields of fine arts of the social, intellectual, 
religious and economic conditions which prevailed in 
certain countries during the growth of their culture and civilization. 

One often hears the use of an historic style spoken of as if it started 
and stopped on definite dates. Such a belief is not correct, for all styles have 
their cycles of beginning, apex and decline. The beginning of any style is 
always influenced by that which has gone before, often to such an extent 
that it is difficult, during the transitional period, to tell in which style a 
certain motive may belong. 

Students of the fine arts are met with the question, why does America 
not have an historic style of its own. In certain fields of the fine arts, we 
have; in others, time will produce them. No historic style ever grew from 
a briefer period than several centuries. To attempt to build theories of art, 
or to form a style independently of the past, would be an act of supreme 
folly; it would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowl¬ 
edge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our in¬ 
heritance all the sucessful arts of the past, not blindly following them, but 
employing them simply as guides to find an expression in the arts which 
best fits our needs. For a long time we sought to reproduce the forms of 
European art, but new conditions imposed new development. Commerce 
with other lands has brought in foreign influences to which we are pe¬ 
culiarly susceptible. It is only with political and commercial independence, 
fully developed internal resources and a high national culture that the 
fine arts enter upon a truly national growth and develop a national style. 

We, in America, have originated new construction methods, new 
types of buildings and a distinctly American treatment of composition 

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HISTORIC STYLE 


and mass in many classes of buildings, the decorative details being still, for 
the most part, derived from historic precedents. 

New schools of architecture have been established, museums of art 
opened and enlarged, all stimulating an artistic awakening; a great impetus 
to all of these influences was given by the Centennial Exhibition at Phil¬ 
adelphia in 1876 and the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. These 
brought, for the first time, the products of the American people in contact 
with those of European and Oriental art Beginning first in the domain of 
industrial and decorative art, its stimulating influence rapidly extended to 
painting and architecture with lasting results. In recent years, the influence 
of historic styles has appeared throughout all industry wherever design is 
a factor and it is a natural consequence that today it is a vital force in 
memorial art. 

Of the various historic styles the following have been selected for 
treatment in this book: 


I 

Egyptian 

IV 

Celtic 

II 

Greek 

V 

Gothic 

III 

Roman 

VI 

Renaissance 


VII Colonial 

One chapter will be devoted to each style and will be accompanied by 
a plate illustrating various examples of the ornament of the period and by 
another plate showing applications of certain of these ornaments to mod¬ 
ern memorials. 




CHAPTER I 

EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT 


O people, either ancient or modern, have had a national 
architecture at once so sublime in scale, so grand in 
expression and so free from littleness as that of the 
Ancient Egyptians.”— Champollion. 

The Egyptian is the oldest civilization of which 
authentic particulars are known. It is, therefore, natural 
that the commencement of architectural ornament should be along the 
valley of the Nile. Egyptian ornament, as well as that of some other 
periods, falls into three general classifications, Natural, Geometric and 
Architectural. 

Natural forms, which were always strongly conventionalized, were 
derived from plants and animals and the former were based largely on 
two plants, the lotus (see plate I, drawing and the papyrus (drawing 
2.9). 

The lotus is a large water-lily which grows in profusion along the 
banks of the Nile and has been said to symbolize to the Egyptians food 
for the body and mind. It is shown in the hands of kings and gods, laid 
upon altars as an offering and tied to the tops of posts and columns as an 
embellishment. The conventionalized representations were usually in side 
elevation with three sepals, or supporting leaves, and six petals, with the 
bud between each flower (see drawings 6,8,9,13,18 and z6). The bud 
between the flowers, however, is often replaced by bunches of grapes or 
forms following that of the bud as shown in drawing 18. The lotus was 
used as an all-over pattern with the spiral (drawing 2.), but more com¬ 
monly as a band or border and in many cases a pattern for capitals on col¬ 
umns. 

A derived form of the lotus with the petals omitted is used in the 
rosette with an exaggerated bud, as shown in drawing 11. Drawing 8 
indicates the similarity of the upper row of conventionalized lotus to 

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the egg and dart, which appears in Greek and nearly all subsequent orna¬ 
ment. Professor Goodyear, in his "Grammar of the Lotus,” tries to prove 
that all historic ornament is derived from the lotus. While this is not con¬ 
ceded by all authorities, it is interesting to note the marked similarity 
between the Egyptian lotus and the egg and dart, which was developed 
in a later civilization. 

The palmette (drawings io, 2.3,14) is the name given to an ornament 
which occurs in Egyptian, Assyrian, Phoenician and Greek art and from 
which the Greek anthemion is a direct derivative. The origin and 
significance of this ornament are not fully determined. It is universally 
agreed that it is a lotus motive, but how the combination of a semi¬ 
rosette with a trilobe lotus came about and what it meant are not clear. 

The papyrus (drawing 2.9) with its tall stems and root leaves is similar 
to our native marsh rush. It consists of a straight, stiff, triangular stem with 
four root leaves covering a slightly swelling base. The conventionalized 
form of this plant was used as a painted decoration (drawing 17), bell cap¬ 
itals (drawing xi) or columns (drawings 19 and 2.1). The stem grows tiny 
flowers which are worked into the design of the capital of the column as 
shown in drawing 2.1. Other uses of the papyrus can be seen in drawing 19, 
where a cluster of the triangular stalks is tied together, making a column. 
Drawing 2.8 shows both the papyrus and the lotus; the former at the left, 
and the latter at the right with its stems bound with matting. 

Chief among the animal forms was the vulture with its widespread 
wings (drawings 3 and 1 2.) which symbolized protection and maternal care 
and was used on cornices, over entrance pylons and painted on ceilings, 
chests, walls, etc. The wings alone are shown with the circular disk, repre¬ 
senting the sun, or god Ra; the wings with the disk flanked by the hooded 
cobra were the symbol of death (drawing 12.). 

Feathers are often used in the form of insignia, head dresses (drawing 
2.0) or great fans and they form the motives for column capitals and are 
used in geometric patterns with the lotus, papyrus and rosette (see draw¬ 
ings 15 and 17). 

Geometric patterns were based on a few simple elementary forms. The 
spiral shown in drawings 2., 4, 13 and 16 was used in all-over patterns, as 

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well as a running ornament. Later it came to play a very important part 
in Greek ornament The circle was the basis for the rosette and is shown 
in various uses in drawings 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16 and 17. The rosette was 
designed in a great many ways, sometimes inspired by flowers, but more 
often of purely geometrical origin. The zigzag (drawings 1 and 14) was 
commonly supposed to represent the wave motion of the Nile. This 
motive may have come from the patterns formed by the weaving of 
matting and cloth. Lozenges, shown in drawing 1, were produced by 
placing zigzags back to back. 

The S-scroll, composed of two spirals, which appears in drawings 2., 4 
and 16, was used both as an all-over pattern and band ornament. When two 
such scrolls are placed back to back, the space between is often filled with 
lotus flowers as shown in drawing 2.. When the scrolls run diagonally, 
rosettes are often placed in the spaces between the scrolls (see drawing 4). 
The S-scroll was later used in Greek work as a connecting link between 
anthemion motives (see plate II, drawings 2.2., 2.3 and 2.4). The plain scroll 
was formed as a running ornament (see plate I, drawings 16 and 18) or in 
connection with the support of lotus flowers (drawing 13). 

The fret motive shown in drawings 5 and 2.2. seems to have been used 
by many peoples independent of and far removed from each other. In 
Egyptian ornament, it is rarely used as a border, but more commonly as an 
all-over pattern, as shown in the above drawings. Note the similarity 
between the fret and what is known as the swastika design, which was 
used by many widely separated peoples both savage and civilized. 

Of the various architectural forms used by the Egyptians only a few 
are of value in monumental designing. The Caveto cornice (drawing 12.) 
was supposed to have received its form from a wall constructed of two 
rows of wood stalks set into the ground, tied somewhat below the top, and 
the intervening space filled with earth. The weight of this earth above the 
bands spread out and bent over the wood stalks, thus forming the curved 
cornice, which was adopted in architectural design. 

Columns were used in many forms, usually based upon the papyrus and 
lotus motives. Later in the Egyptian period the Hathor headed capital 
(drawing 30) was introduced. These column capitals were square and their 

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EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT 


four faces were supposed to symbolize the power of the goddess Hathor to 
see in every direction. 

The obelisk, the simplest form of ancient memorial, was first used by 
the Egyptians and originally appeared to have symbolized re-creation. Obe¬ 
lisks were at first erected only on the east bank of the Nile and the pyra¬ 
mids on the west bank—the obelisk, allegorical of the rising sun, and the 
pyramid of the setting sun, evidently representing the living and departed 
monarchs. The sacred character of the obelisk is proven by its invariable 
association with the Egyptian temples. Here they were usually erected in 
pairs, on either side of an entrance to the larger courtyard. They were never 
attached to the walls but were free standing and, while they formed no 
part of the structure itself, yet no temple was complete without them. 


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CHAPTER II 


GREEK ORNAMENT 


HE progress of Greek art stands in sharp contrast with 
the slow advance of Egyptian art, largely because it was 
not restricted by similar religious traditions. Greece was 
modern in spirit and appeals to modern tastes. Native 
artisans carried the perfection of pure form to a point 
which has since rarely been reached and it is common 
belief that the presence of refined taste was almost universal. 

The art of Greece marks the beginning of European civilization. Being 
a group of small states on the border of the Mediterranean Sea with mari¬ 
time pursuits as a large part of their occupation, direct contact with Egypt 
and Assyria was unavoidable. These two civilizations were the centers of 
art previous to Greek domination and it was but natural that they should 
have had direct influence upon Grecian art. Greek ornament follows the 
same general classification as the Egyptian and in this chapter the divisions 
will be considered in the same order. 

First among natural forms comes the lotus and its bud, which with the 
palmette were brought into Greece from Egypt. The use of the lotus bud 
and palmette is shown on plate II, drawing 18. 

The anthemion (drawings to to 2.6 inclusive, also drawings 30 and 34) 
is the most important and most beautiful of all Grecian motives. It can be 
clearly traced back to the lotus and palmette forms of Egypt. Its similarity 
to the honeysuckle flower is not recognized as an attempt at imitation, but 
rather as an application of the principle on which the flower grows. The 
direct influence of the alternating lotus bud and lotus flower pattern of the 
Egyptians is clearly shown in drawings 2.3 and 2.4. 

The vine motive occurs sometimes with a straight stem (drawing 3 2.), 
sometimes with a curved stem (drawings 9, 10, 16, 2.8 and 33). It may 
represent in different examples the laurel, ivy or grape vine. The laurel 
wreath was the crown of victory in athletic and literary contests. The ivy 

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GREEK ORNAMENT 


and grape vine were both sacred to the Greek god Dionysos, the god of 
wine. 

The acanthus was the common plant native to Greece and Italy. Its 
leaf is similar in character to the leaf of the thistle plant with its pointed 
ends. This motive was first introduced into ornamental forms by the 
Greeks as a covering for the branching of scrolls (see drawing 14). The 
conventionalized leaf as used upon the Corinthian capitals is shown in 
drawing 17 and in combination with the anthemion motive in drawing 2.6. 

The head of the lion and sheep seems to have been the chief use of 
animal forms by the Greeks. Drawing 11 shows the side elevation of a 
lion’s head from the cornice of the Parthenon. 

Of geometric patterns, the fret is one of the best known. In drawings 
1, x, 3, 4, 6 and 8 are shown some of its variations from the simple gener¬ 
ating form in drawing 4 to the more complicated fret in drawing 6. The 
number of forms that can be produced by lines at right angles is somewhat 
limited. First in drawing 4, we have the simple fret proceeding in one 
direction with a single line. Other forms of fret are obtained by placing one 
under another, running in different directions (drawing 1) and back to back 
(drawing 6), with inserted rosettes. The raking fret, A and B, is believed to 
be the parent of all later forms of interlacing ornament. 

The wave or Vitruvian scroll occurs in Egyptian ornament (see plate I, 
drawings 13 and 16), but there is some question as to whether this motive 
came directly into Greek art from Egypt. It was used by the Greeks in 
various patterns (see drawings 2.9, 31, 35) and in one form or another by 
nearly all subsequent civilizations. 

The spiral is common to nearly all styles of ornament. There are two 
types in Greek work, the single spiral (drawing 16), which branches from 
the wave movement of the vine, and the branched spiral (drawings 2.1, 2.2., 
30). 

In the single spiral there is just one scroll at the end of the stem. In the 
branched spiral there are never more than three spirals coming from the 
stem. Drawings 2.0 to ^4 inclusive and drawing 2.6 show the S-curve which 
is frequently used in connection with the spiral. 

Rosettes (drawings 5 and 7) were common to almost all styles of orna- 

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Greek Ornament Applied to Modern Memorials 














GREEK ORNAMENT 


ment and are found in great variety of design, some being purely geomet¬ 
rical, others evidently conventionalized flowers. The guilloche is illustrated 
in drawing 2.7 and occurs in both the single and double scroll. Whether 
this form was originated by the Greeks or borrowed by them from Egypt 
is not definitely known. 

The architectural mouldings of the Greeks (drawings 15, 36 and 37) 
were invariably noted for their refinement of profile and their proper rela¬ 
tion in mass with one another. Drawing 3 7 shows dentils which are the 
teeth-like mouldings in one of the upper members of a cornice. They evi¬ 
dently originated in the early days of wood construction, when the ends of 
wooden rafters resting on the beam below were allowed to project through 
the wall of the building. 

The egg and dart, shown in the upper part of drawing 2.6 and the cen¬ 
tral part of drawing 37, was evidently derived from the lotus ornament, as 
shown in the upper part of drawing 8, plate I. The section of this orna¬ 
ment was a quarter round. 

An example of the water leaf appears in drawing 13. This occurred on 
such moulds as are shown in drawing 13 A. 

The bead and reel (see center of drawing 2.6 and top of drawing 3 7) 
was usually carved in the form of a half round member in connection 
with the egg and dart or water leaf and may have been derived from bits 
of jewelry made of beads separated by tiny reels. 

The festoon, or swag, was a motive developed late in Greek work, but 
was not extensively used until after the Roman conquest of Greece. Then 
it was adopted by the Romans and became one of their prominent motives. 
In general, it is a group of flowers and fruit bound together, supported at 
each end, and allowed to sag in the central part (see drawing 19). 


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CHAPTER III 


ROMAN ORNAMENT 


OMAN ART grew up under conditions quite different 
from those prevailing in Greece. Whereas Greece was 
comprised of a group of many states with one race, lan¬ 
guage and religion, Rome was composed of many coun¬ 
tries and many languages and religions. The Romans may 
have lacked the universal artistic feeling of the Greeks, 
but they had remarkable ability for organization and administration. The 
Greek ideal in art was to arrive at a perfection worthy of the gods. The 
Roman ideal was self-glorification and the satisfying in their national life 
of a taste for luxury and splendor. Although the Romans were lovers and 
patrons of art, their energies were not devoted to producing it. They were 
content in most cases to import artisans from other countries, chiefly 
Greece, to carry out their ideas. These artisans were forced to work under 
conditions foreign to their ideals and, owing to this, Roman ornament 
often lacks the artistic completeness which characterizes the master¬ 
pieces of other schools. However, it was well adapted for the purposes 
which it had to serve and is worthy of study for its elegance and variety 
of design. 

Nearly all of the principal forms of Roman ornament are modifications 
of those which have already been classified and described in previous chap¬ 
ters. The anthemion (plate III, drawings 6, 8, 16 and 18) can be traced back 
to Greek examples, but with a new and original ornament form. The 
rosette reveals great originality in motives, as shown in drawings 4, 5,19 
and 2.1. In treating the acanthus leaf, the Romans made it less massive than 
the Greeks—more finely modeled with emphasized eyes and pipes (see 
drawings 1, 3, 7,9,14,16, 17 and xo). These so-called "'eyes” were the holes 
where one part of the leaf folded over another, leaving an opening. The 
"pipes” were the wrinkles or pleats which resulted from the folding and 
which extended from the eyes to the base of the leaf. 

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Roman Ornament Applied to Modern Memorials 














ROMAN ORNAMENT 


A new motive, which had its origin in the waving stem of a vine, 
throwing off leaves alternately on either side to fill in the hollows of its 
waves, is known as the rinceau. The beginning of this motive can be seen 
in Greek ornament (plate II, drawings 9 and 10). In drawings 14 and 17, 
on plate III, are seen splendid examples of its complete and finest form as 
developed by the Romans. 

The festoon (see drawing a) was a garland made up of flowers, fruits 
and leaves, often accompanied by ribbons, ox skulls, etc., and was a form 
of ornament which was often used on altars and friezes. This motive had 
its beginning during the latter days of Greek art and was developed by 
Greek artisans under Roman guidance in countless ways. 

Among the animal forms used in Roman ornament were the ox skulls, 
which were frequently used alone as well as with festoons, also the heads 
of other animals, such as sheep and lions’ heads with horns (see drawings 
6 and 8) and often human forms with the torso growing from a wrapping 
of acanthus leaves. 

The bead and reel was used extensively by the Romans, but the bead 
was usually elongated, whereas that of the Greeks was nearly circular (see 
lower member of drawing 1 z). 

The egg and dart bears a direct relation to the Greek but is wider and 
more open, the shell being farther away from the sides of the egg, the egg 
being more circular in shape and the dart taking on the form of a pointed 
arrow head (see upper part of drawing 1 z). 

The water leaf shown in drawing 10 has flat fillets or edges, pointed 
darts and a general appearance of being short and wide. 

Two variations of the guilloche are shown in drawings 13 and 15, the 
simplest form of which can be found in plate II, drawing Z7. Drawing 11 
on plate III shows the oak leaf on a half round moulding and is often used 
as the lower torus or half round member on bases of columns. 

Because of the far-reaching influence vaulted construction had upon 
subsequent styles, it is proper to mention this element of Roman archi¬ 
tecture in this chapter. Three types of vaults were commonly used: the 
dome, the barrel vault and the groined or four part vault. The dome rested 
on a circular wall built up from the ground. The barrel vault was generally 


ROMAN ORNAMENT 


cylindrical in section and was used to cover corridors and oblong halls. The 
groined vault is formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults. When 
several groined vaults are placed beside each other a double advantage is 
secured. Side windows can be carried up to the full height of the vaulting 
instead of stopping at the spring line of the arch and the weight and thrust 
of the vaulted ceilings are carried upon isolated piers. It is this form of 
vaulting which was later adopted by the Romanesque and Gothic builders 
and in the hands of the craftsmen of the Medieval period its use with the 
application of the pointed arch in place of the round arch was responsible 
more than any one thing for the success of the Gothic craftsmen. 


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CHAPTER IV 


CELTIC ORNAMENT 


URING the period from 400 to 1100 A.D., when the art 
and civilization of Europe had nearly disappeared in the 
oblivion of the Dark Ages, there developed in the Celtic 
monasteries of Great Britain and Ireland a form of or¬ 
nament wholly distinctive and quite different from any 
that preceded it. This style originated with the decoration 
or "illumination” of Biblical manuscripts, which was carried out in a most 
elaborate fashion and which gradually came to be used on memorials, 
church plate and silverware and for many other purposes of ornamentation. 

The actual sources of the Celtic style are shrouded in mystery, although 
there may be some basis for theories that connect it with Roman, Byzantine 
or Scandinavian forms. There is more reason to believe, however, that it 
was an original product of the Celtic races of Great Britain and Ireland, 
from whom it derives its name. 

The chief general characteristic of Celtic ornament is the intricate, com¬ 
plicated form of its patterns. Interlaced ribbon work was used extensively 
in a geometrical manner. Diagonal and spiral lines were the basic ideas for 
many forms. Animal figures were used, but they were subjected to the ne¬ 
cessity of filling a certain space in a certain manner, with the result that 
they, too, became interlaced, geometrical and wholly imaginative in char¬ 
acter. It is doubtful if these complicated, intertwining patterns of the Celts 
had any particular religious or moral significance, although later genera¬ 
tions have ascribed such meaning to them. So far as we know, they were 
used for purely decorative purposes. 

The entire absence of flowers, foliage or plant forms of any sort is a 
noticeable characteristic of Celtic ornament. The human figure rarely oc¬ 
curs and architectural forms were never used. 

The most typical of all Celtic patterns is produced by two or three 
spiral lines starting from a central point and radiating to the centers of 

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coils formed by other spiral lines (plate IV, drawing 31). Such spirals 
always took the same relative direction, following the form of the letter 
C. From this pattern the formal C-spiral developed, as shown at the in¬ 
tersection of the cross (drawing 2.8 and the center of drawing 2.6). This 
spiral was peculiar to Celtic ornament and never took the form of the 
letter S, common to preceding styles. 

Drawings 6,9 and 33 are examples of the ingenious use of the diagonal 
pattern. This resembles a fret, but it is not considered a true one. It is some¬ 
times termed the Z pattern as the form of this letter, or its reverse, seems 
to be the primary element of the design. Its lines never interlaced and were 
usually spaced at equal distances. 

Another very simple ornament is a group of lines at right angles placed 
at equal distances apart, forming a series of steps (drawings 2., 4 and the 
center of 23). 

The simplest form of ribbon ornament, the double oval, is shown in 
drawing 1. Another pattern, drawing 2.0, known as the triquetra, is ex¬ 
tremely common. Drawings 11,11 and 19 are modifications of this pattern. 
Drawings 3, 5, 7,10, 2.1, 2.4, also 13 to 18 inclusive, consist of one or more 
narrow ribbons interlaced and knotted to suit the convenience of the design. 
This adaptability of Celtic ornament to any required form or space gives 
it particular value for memorial designing. 

Drawing 2.2. represents two fantastic animals interwoven. Drawing 2.3 
is the letter O richly embellished. Drawing 2 .5 shows two animals inter¬ 
laced to fit the rounded panel. Drawing 2.6 is the letter O embellished in 
the center with the C-spiral and at the sides with interwoven birds. Draw¬ 
ing 2.8 is a complete cross with the ribbon pattern carved on the shaft, the 
C-spiral at the intersection and the diagonal fret-like pattern on either arm. 
Drawing 2.7 is the letter Q wrapped around with an animal whose head 
starts at the top left side and whose feet end in two claws or toe nails, one 
on either side of the tail of the letter. Drawing 2.9 is an example of an 
animal used to make the letter S; drawing 3 2. shows another motive where 
animals with long tongues, twisted tails and arms are used to fill in an 
elongated narrow space. 


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CHAPTER V 


GOTHIC ORNAMENT 


HE architectural styles which developed in Western 
Europe during the Medieval period between 1150 and 
1500 A. D. were given the incorrect name of Gothic. The 
Goths, who lived in Central Europe and were primitive 
peoples, had nothing to do with the development of so- 
called Gothic architecture, the name being applied to it 
in contempt by its opponents. In reality this style was an outgrowth of the 
Romanesque. Its fundamental principles were the same and it dealt with 
the same problems, taking them up where the Romanesque builders left 
them and working out their solutions under new conditions. 

Gothic art began in France, other countries borrowing both its general 
composition and details. Great Britain adopted the early forms and devel¬ 
oped her own Gothic style. Germany copied French models closely, while 
Spain and Portugal borrowed from all three. The Italians developed no 
genuine Gothic style, but borrowed Gothic details mostly from France 
and applied them to churches, memorials and palaces, which, however, 
continued to be structurally based on classic principles. 

Refinement, good taste and great originality characterize the details and 
ornaments of Gothic structures. The Greeks in harmonizing the require¬ 
ments of utility and beauty approached the problem from the esthetic side, 
while the Gothic architects treated it from the structural side. 

The great problem which Gothic architecture worked out to a point 
of perfection was the stone vaulting of a cruciform church with a clear 
story for light above the central aisle or nave. All the special forms and de¬ 
tails of Gothic architecture are more or less incidental to this development; 
vaulting, ribbing, buttresses, pinnacles, clustered shafts, pointed arches, 
mouldings and tracery were all evolved in the process of solving this 
problem. The greater part of the ornament of Medieval churches, chapels 
and secular buildings consisted of the adornment applied to these struc- 

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tural features. Whatever decoration was not structural, either in function 
or origin, was symbolic or pictorial. The sculpture and stained glass of the 
great cathedrals constituted an illustrated Bible which even the most illit¬ 
erate could in a measure understand. 

The pointed arch, usually looked upon as the most typical of Gothic 
forms, did not originate in Gothic art, but it was highly developed during 
this period. It had long been used in the Orient and often occurs in French 
Romanesque. What was really distinctive in Gothic architecture was the 
systematic application of two principles, partly recognized by the Roman 
builders, but apparently forgotten until revived during the Romanesque 
period. The first was the concentration of ceiling strains upon isolated points 
of support made possible by the use of the pointed or groined vaults in 
place of the barrel or semi-circular construction. The second was the natural 
result of the concentration of masses of masonry at these isolated points of 
support. The wall between these supports became a mere filling which per¬ 
mitted the use of large windows adorned with tracery (which is explained 
later). As these points of support became more isolated and slender an exterior 
and sometimes interior buttress was used to aid in sustaining the thrust of 
the vaulted ceilings. 

It seemed to be the desire of the Medieval designers to enrich every 
constructive feature with the greatest amount of light and shadow and to 
embody in the ornament the greatest amount of allegory and symbolism. 
The recessed doorways and pier arches were moulded with a rich succes¬ 
sion of hollow and convex members, carvings of saints, apostles, martyrs 
and angels, virtues and vices, allegories of reward and punishment. Another 
method of ornamentation was the application of tracery to wall paneling, 
balustrades, open work gables, spires and choir screens, the carving of cap¬ 
itals and the ornamentation of mouldings. 

Direct recourse to natural forms, especially plant life, is a marked char¬ 
acteristic. At first the budding shoots of early spring were freely imitated 
or skilfully conventionalized in stone. During the thirteenth century the 
more advanced stage of plant growth, with leaves more complex and de¬ 
tailed, furnished the models for carvers. The adaptation of natural forms 
to architectural ornamentation degenerated toward the end of the Gothic 

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period into a minutely realistic copying of natural foliage, notable chiefly 
for its cleverness of execution. 

For the sake of convenience Gothic ornament has been divided into 
three main periods, the Early, the Developed and the Florid The ornament 
of the Early period is the simplest and most vigorous, with the imitation of 
natural forms least literal. In the Developed period, design and execution 
are finer, ornament more profuse and naturalistic, and window tracery be¬ 
came a more important element in decoration. In the Florid period the 
ornament is more complex and often overloaded. 

Every important structural feature was either made an ornament in it¬ 
self or decorated with crockets and finials or with foliage and flowers on 
enriched mouldings. Crockets are usually found along the edges or hips of 
gables and are composed of outward curling leaf-like projections richly 
carved. Where these terminate at the top of a gable they form a motive 
known as the finial composed usually of a central stem, ending in a ball or 
bud and branching out below this into four or more crockets. Mouldings 
play a very important part in Gothic expression. Pear shaped sections 
(plate V, drawing n), alternating with deep hollows, produce effective 
contrasts with multiplied narrow lines of light and shadow. Drawing 16, 
reading from right to left, clearly shows the evolution of the classical base 
mouldings to the Gothic base mouldings. Enriched concave mouldings are 
more frequent in English than in French work. These are adorned with 
leaves (drawings 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7), ball flowers (drawing 18),dog tooth (draw¬ 
ings 17 and 2.0) and pyramid flowers (drawing 19). 

Window tracery was one of the most decorative and characteristic 
features of Gothic architecture. The growth in the size of the windows 
contributed greatly to the development of tracery which was necessary for 
the support of glass. Its evolution can be traced (drawings 2. to 7 inclusive) 
from the coupling of twin windows under a single arch to the florid net¬ 
work of the fifteenth century. In its earlier form it consisted merely of dec¬ 
orative openings, cubes and quatrefoils, designed as if pierced through 
slabs of stone and known as plate tracery, which filled the window heads 
over coupled windows (drawings 2. and 3). Later, attention was given to the 
form of stone work, which was made lighter and richly moulded. In the 

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later periods, the circular and geometric patterns were abandoned for more 
flowing and imaginative designs (drawing 7), pinnacles (drawing 34), 
crockets (drawings 2.9 and 30) and finials (drawing 14), all of which were 
as characteristic of the Gothic style as the tracery. 

Buttresses were usually terminated by a tall slender pyramid, square or 
octagonal in plan, rising from gables covering two or four faces of the 
buttress top. These pinnacles were adorned along the edges with crockets 
(drawing 34) and terminated in a finial. 

Corbels (drawings 13 and 15) were of frequent occurrence in all Gothic 
styles as supports for statues, columns, vaulting ribs and shafts. They were 
almost always carved with foliage after the manner of the capitals. 
Grotesque heads and human figures appear in the place of foliage in the 
later period. 

Drawings 8 and n are two examples of the leaf used to cover the 
meeting points of mouldings (see drawing 9). Drawing 10 shows the 
circular rosette and drawing 1 a five-sided rosette. Drawing 2.6 is a group of 
leaves circular in form, shaped to cover the intersection of vault ribbing, 
and is known as a boss. 

The triangular panels (drawings 2.2. and 2.3) are two treatments of foliage 
to fit a particular shape; drawings x8 and 31 are examples of square rosettes 
and drawings 33 and 35 are two typical grotesques which are to be found 
along horizontal mouldings. In drawing 3 2. we have an example of a capital 
decorated with foliage carved after the style of the Early period and in 
drawing 36 are examples of the later or more naturalistic carving used for 
the same purpose. 


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CHAPTER VI 


RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT 


HE Renaissance is the name given to the great movement 
which displaced the ideals and intellectual habits of the 
Medieval Ages in favor of the new ideals and mental proc¬ 
esses on which modern learning and civilization are 
founded. The abandonment of Gothic art and the substi¬ 
tution of classic models was a very slow and far-reaching 
process. The roots of the movement may be traced far back into the 
Middle Ages, beginning in Italy and spreading, in time, to France, Spain, 
Germany and Great Britain. 

The reason for this new expression of art was the protest of individual 
reason against the pressure of arbitrary authority as exercised during the 
Medieval Ages by the Church and the State. 

The Renaissance laid the foundation for modern civilization. It is the 
result of all branches of the fine arts being produced by individuals who 
gave expression to their own personal taste. It is a history of the efforts of 
various artisans studying the ancient classic examples and interpreting them 
each in his own way. The artisans, as well as those in power, longed to 
rival the luxury and grandeur of Ancient Rome, and appropriated the many 
motives from antique monuments which abounded on every hand, totally 
unconscious of the difference between their own conceptions and those 
they thought they imitated. Unknown to themselves they were creating a 
new style in which the Roman motives were fitted to new requirements. 
The growing indulgence of personal luxury called for the building and 
adornment of palaces and gardens; civic pride and personal vanity stim¬ 
ulated the building of splendid tombs and monuments. All this was the 
accompaniment of the new intellectual life of the Renaissance with its 
eager questioning of the past and its ventures into new fields of inquiry. 
This striving for knowledge, for an ideal, bears a strong resemblance 
to the progress of Greek art; and the sources of modern scholarship 

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and science are found in the Renaissance with its independent attitude 
toward authority, toward the past, toward nature and the universe. 

The Renaissance began in Italy because in the city states, municipali¬ 
ties and guilds of Northern and Central Italy the spirit of independence 
and a growing individualism had long been preparing the way for such a 
movement Once the movement gained a strong foothold in Italy, it rap¬ 
idly extended to other countries. 

Decoration was the preeminent object of the Renaissance artisans. They 
were the first craftsmen in Europe in every phase of design. As builders 
with remarkable resourcefulness in construction, they excelled, but in em¬ 
bellishment by decoration in form and color, their art found its highest 
expression. Buildings, gardens, furniture, textiles, bronzes, sculpture, me¬ 
morials, and every sort of ornament capable of receiving beauty of shape 
and adornment, were designed with a sense of artistic fitness, with a dis¬ 
criminating taste, with a refinement of detail and execution that have sel¬ 
dom been surpassed and rarely even approached. 

The careful study of natural forms afforded a new inspiration to de¬ 
signers. While there was no actual representation of plant forms, there 
was always a feeling of keen appreciation of the laws and forms of plant 
growth. 

It is true that Roman decorative art was the foundation of the Renais¬ 
sance, but never did artisans of the latter copy or imitate the older forms. 
The acanthus leaf, anthemion, rosette, rinceau, festoon and mouldings such 
as the egg and dart, water leaf and bead and reel, all can be traced from 
Rome to the Renaissance, where they are found transformed into new shapes. 

The acanthus leaf (plate VI, drawings 3 and 6), the most adaptable of 
all foliage forms, was endlessly varied from the old Roman prototypes. 
The leaves became light, slender and very delicately modeled. 

The arabesque, or carved ornament applied to panels and pilasters (draw¬ 
ings X5 and 2.7), is generally a combination of a central axis composed of 
vases, candelabrum forms and fanciful stalks with symmetrically diverging 
acanthus leaves, or with branching foliated scrolls to flank them on either 
side, all treated in a light graceful manner. 

The rinceau, mentioned in the chapter on Roman ornament, is the 

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branching foliated scroll in which a continuous waving stem throws off, 
alternately on either side, spiral branches terminating in rosettes or bunches 
of leaves, each branching concealed by a wrapping of acanthus leaf This 
is the most adaptable of all decorative patterns and can be traced from the 
vine motive of Greek art down through the Medieval and Renaissance 
periods. Drawing 2.1 and the upper part of drawing 2.7 are excellent ex¬ 
amples of this design. 

Drawings 1 and 9 are two variations of the anthemion which was es¬ 
sentially a frieze or band motive. The Renaissance artisans varied the design 
from close approximation of the Greek or Roman type to the elaborate 
forms indicated in drawings 1 and 9. 

As before stated the rosette occurs in nearly all historic styles of or¬ 
nament. The Renaissance rosette was so multiplied, and its forms were so 
varied and conventionalized, that it is difficult to identify any particular 
plant form as its source. Examples of the simple rosette are shown in draw¬ 
ings 2_2_ and 2.4 and the more elaborate type in drawings 2. and 4. 

The festoon, as already explained, is a Roman motive with bunches of 
flowers and fruit suspended between ox skulls and bound together with 
ribbons. In the Renaissance the festoon was supported from rosettes, the 
shoulders of infants or from buttons and ribbons (drawings 2.3 and 2.6). 

Mouldings during this period were carved with the greatest elabora¬ 
tion as shown in the variations of the egg and dart (drawings n, 12., 13), 
the bead and reel (drawings 15, 16, 17, 18), the water leaf (drawing 14), 
the carved anthemion (drawing 19) and the twisted or rope design (draw¬ 
ing 2.0). 

Capitals for both columns and pilasters (drawings 5 and 7) were of 
composite types including a free modification of the Roman Corinthian. 
The column was less commonly used than the pilaster, which had capitals 
of great variety and beauty. 

The shell was designed in many forms, two of which are seen in draw¬ 
ings 8 and 10. 

The treatment of relief is handled with delicacy and charm. Certain de¬ 
tails are carved in moderately high relief with rounded masses producing 
emphatic spots of light and shadow, while the subordinate elements of the 

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RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT 

design are kept low, and the minor details almost melt away at the edges 
into the background. Surface ornament and low relief carving were used 
so extensively in the Renaissance that this period affords a rich field of 
practical material for the craftsman who is seeking sources of ornament 
adapted to modern conditions of production. 


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CHAPTER VII 


COLONIAL ORNAMENT 


HE style of architecture and ornamentation which arose 
in the thirteen colonies of this country during the cen¬ 
tury preceding the Revolution is called Colonial. The 
Georgian period in England was its prototype and it was 
the Colonists’ adoption of the Georgian motives which 
brought about this distinctive period in American art. 
Colonial architecture is sometimes called Georgian Colonial, but this 
description is incorrect. Georgian belonged to England, Colonial to this 
country, and both terms could not properly be applied to the same style 
although, during the transition, there was an inevitable intermingling 
of the two. 

It is natural that the beginning of the colonies was distinguished by 
few notable productions of architecture or ornament. The first problem to 
face the colonists was the erection of buildings which met the most rudi¬ 
mentary necessities and it was not until about the year 1700 that population, 
commerce and wealth along the Atlantic coast had increased sufficiently 
to allow a certain elegance in domestic life and architecture. For a century 
or more the prevalent architectural forms and details were in wood. The 
builders were trained in English traditions of the Georgian period; they 
used English moulding profiles and worked from English pattern books 
or from instructions received in the "home country.” The English details, 
designed chiefly for execution in stone, had to be interpreted in wood 
which, in America, was almost the universal material. Owing to this 
change in material there was a corresponding change in the character of 
the ornament. Mouldings became very refined and ornaments delicately 
carved, often in low relief. It is to the credit of these early builders that the 
proportions and simplicity of Georgian composition were not lost. In fact, 
they were so well executed that they are a constant source of inspiration 
to the architects of the present day. 

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During the later part of the eighteenth century when the brick 
Colonial of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia came into prominence, impor¬ 
tations of motives from the Adam style in England and the Louis XVI 
style in France gradually made themselves felt The ornament around the 
window (plate VII, drawing 31) and the moulding from a door frame 
(drawing 17) show decided French influence. The fan-like or spider web 
ornament so common to the Adam style was used in squares (drawing 6), 
rectangles (drawing 33), triangles (drawing 2.) and circles (drawing 1). Flut- 
ings were of many kinds, both the straight and interrupted as shown in 
drawing 36. Strap work (drawings 19, zo, 2.3 and 2.6) was one of the 
commonest bits of ornament. This resembles thin strips of sawed wood, 
worked in geometric patterns. It is found usually upon friezes and is used as 
a running ornament. 

Reeding (drawing 35), which was similar in appearance to fluting, had 
a convex section and was usually applied to the face of pilasters and elliptical 
or circular columns. 

The scroll or broken pediment was a special favorite among the 
Colonial craftsmen. It was used in many forms from the low scrolls 
(drawing zy) to the open, tall, slender forms (drawing 2.4). To emphasize 
the outline of a motive, a vase, acorn or pineapple was often applied to the 
center. 

The festoon was treated with slenderness and grace. Its fruits and flow¬ 
ers were extremely naturalistic, its relief low, and carving fine and delicate. 
This motive was presented in great variety using the grape vine (draw¬ 
ing 11), the simple acanthus leaf (drawings 5 and 9), the bell shaped flower 
(drawings 4 and 7). The festoon composed of cloth supported at each end 
by buttons was designed especially in connection with the decoration of 
head stones, church pulpits and ecclesiastical furniture (drawing 8). 

Urns both of the horizontal type (drawings 34 and 40) and the vertical 
type (drawings 37 to 39 and 41 to 43 inclusive) were one of the delights of 
the Colonial craftsmen. Gate posts, fence posts, mantels and friezes all were 
used for the application of this ornament. 

The dentil, discussed in the chapter on Greek ornament, became very 
fantastic in its variations; drawing zi shows a fret-like movement and 

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drawing 13 a dentil in a fluted section, the flutes of which contain balls 
to add a spot of shadow. 

Beads and reels were counterparts of the Renaissance in their variations. 
Note the long pointed bead with three round reels (drawing 18) and the 
long cylindrical bead, three reels alternating with one reel (drawing 14). 

The egg and dart is very distinctive in its emphasis of the egg flanked 
by a widely open shell. In place of the simple dart of the classic period, 
Colonial designers have seen fit to introduce various forms of the acanthus 
leaf (drawing 2.8) and often instead of a series of eggs this motive shows 
between each dart the acanthus leaf alternating with the egg (drawing 3 o). 

The guilloche, which began with the Egyptians and the Greeks, was 
here used as a decoration, often on torus mouldings and as part of base 
boards and wainscot mouldings. The acanthus leaf, ever present in almost 
every period of ornament of Western Europe except the Celtic, was here 
varied and used in a charming way (drawing 2.5). 

Anthemion motives occur frequently, modified by the Colonial wood 
carver from prototypes in stone. Drawing }z is a direct derivative from the 
Greek anthemion (plate II, drawing z6). Careful attention is called to the 
charming form given the termination of the lobes of the anthemion 
noting how each has been rounded and flattened. The covering prickly 
acanthus shown in Greek work at the base of the anthemion has entirely 
disappeared and a simple S-curve has taken its place. The bud between the 
two anthemions has in the Colonial design been treated as a young leaf just 
bursting into full bloom. A very free, curious and interesting mingling of 
the French ornament with the Colonial is shown in drawing 2.9, where¬ 
in the anthemion motives are carved in a naturalistic style and joined to¬ 
gether with a very fine flowing acanthus leaf after the Louis XVI manner. 

On simple small moulds, which in the earlier periods held the water 
leaf, the acanthus was greatly conventionalized and simplified, the profile of 
the leaves being soft, round, broad and separated by the dart (drawing 15). 
The conventionalized rope pattern was another favorite for half round 
mouldings as shown in drawing 17. 

The fret here occurs in a variety of forms, shaped to fit the size of the 
member to be decorated (drawing 10). 

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The Vitruvian scroll usually follows its original character in Greek and 
Roman ornament, although the example shown in drawing it is reversed 
in its movement. 

Shells are found in only a few forms. They had few divisions or rib¬ 
bing and were often used in direct connection with the acanthus leaf 
(drawing zz). 

In conclusion, it is of interest briefly to trace back the historical connec¬ 
tion of the styles which culminated in the Colonial. The latter, as already 
pointed out, was derived largely from the Georgian style in England and 
partly from the Louis XVI style in France. Both of these owed their origin 
to the great revival of interest during the seventeenth century in the old 
Roman works of art found in Italy. They also were strongly influenced by 
the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance found its inspiration almost wholly 
in Roman architecture which had survived the Medieval Ages. Gothic art 
drew certain of its fundamental principles from the Roman, although in 
the course of its growth it departed radically from classic prototypes. Celtic 
must be regarded as practically isolated from the main sequence. Roman 
architecture came largely from Greece and the Greeks in turn received 
many motives from the Egyptians. 

It is worthy of note that the lasting achievements in the field of design 
have come as a result of careful study of the best that had gone before and 
its adaptation to existing conditions. Efforts to disregard this principle 
have met with little success. If our memorial designing today is to stand 
the test of time, it must be based on the intelligent application of the best 
design which man has produced up to the present. It is hoped that this 
brief outline will serve to arouse interest in the memorial craftsman for 
further study of a subject so vital to his business. 


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